The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
SPIRITS.


SPIRITS.
COMMISSIONS of Clairvoyant's Former
Servant.
From the San Francisco Gail
Mrs. Maggie Gallagher is domestic who
has learned the process of simultaneously
welding broom and dustpan, making bed
up-stairs, starting fire in CRATE down
STAIRS and making q pan OF dough i'll the
Kitchen. This feat, which casts the magical
performances of Heller into the shade and
puts the abstlrse doings of Rider Haggard's
/ O0O-vear-old heroine into the back ground,
was first accomplished by Mrs. Gallagher at
n female clairvoyant'S residence on Mission
street near Third. Notwithstanding the
mysterious influences under which she pro-
tossed to live and by which she directed
wonderful spiritual manifestations, this en-
nlover neglected to render any supernatural
assistance. which Mrs Gallagher claims was
almost imperatively needed in doing the
work that the clairvoyant required of her.
As it happened that the domestic and the
spiritualist quarreled, and when the milk
man did his daily routine of duty at the
Mission street residence one afternoon re-
Gently. he was informed by the new house
keeper that Mrs Gallagher had gone away.
The nature of the rupture between the
servant girl and her former employer was
mch that after returning to her home on
Twentv-seyenth street, Mrs Gallagher de-
jermined TO unbosom herself of the secrets
which she had picked up during her service
n the clairvoyant's house, and with that OBJ
lect in view she hunted up q reporter yes
.erday. She is apparently about ~ or 2S
years old, intelligent enough, and cheer
t,,1l1. i,,,Do1+n1 tbn information which she
possessed What she related will doubtless
serve to open the eyes of several prominent
men in the community who, according to
her story. are constant visitors at the
seances given by this clairvoyant, and who,
although wise enough to the outside world,
are seemingly duPes in Ito charmed circle.
A FEMALE "PEEPING TOM"
The house where the seances take place is
located on Mission street, between Third
and Fourth, and is an old landmark in that
locality The curiosity of Mrs. Gallagher
at the weird occurrences there was aroused
soon after she accepted a situation from the
spiritualist. She began by peering through
key-hoes and then, becoming less and less
afraid of detection, took to looking over the
transom while seances were being held. Her
position in the residence enabled her to OBJ
serve the mechanism in the Seance room, as
she had TO sweep it out and keep it clean.
AT first she h creepy chills and incongru-
Gus nightmare when she saw spirits and ami
mated skeletons appear night after night
there, as II the house were their permanent
abode; but when she discovered, as she says,
chat AL these goings-on" werC merely the
outcome OF trickeIy, her dread departed.
Her interest in the phenomena witnessed at
tins habitation, where wondering 5pooEs and
incandescent spirits played in a theatrical
Qafance long engagements, did not dimln-
9Sil, and she kel po6ing around the Seance-
room and looking Though the tralsoIn until
her knowledge o. the methods employed to
induce revelations OF lie beyond the crave
was, IL her opinion, complete Sherenained
OH the payroll Of the ciaiTNoyant for about
year, and during that period managed to
make the following observations: The room
IN which the Undertaking. seances was held
Is uraped entirely in black The dark
c0ored cloth which covers the sides of the
apartment not only has sombre and
hnaStly erect, but il intcnsifies the darkness
Nlen the lamps are lowered, aud also assists
u conceallug the entrance of the spirits
through couple Of holes by which they are
1linltted INTO the room. These orifceS are
large enough to permit an ordinary-sized
vIHoh 10 crawl easily through. One is made
" taxing out the panel OF Il door leading
ilIo another room. The other hole is cut in
tle wal, and connects the scance room with
.u adJonlng apartment. A casual OBJ
TrNu would fail TO detect either of these
uNeS. The panel fits 50 snu2ly in the door
,Gat no one would think it would be dis
paced, ana the other hole is covered ND bv
aHeatiy made board exactly resembling the
[o'or oil the Whitened wall and seeming to
ee part Of it, These holes are covered
GGsoI WIN the black drapery, which depends
uoh Jhe corllce and hangs in loose folds
" IildI llH EDO0hs Iol,i,,l
hoticed -'i ;" VIZ
BIRDIE AND THE BULGARIAN.
,. ne clailvoyant has q daughter nan,ed
Birdie, who is SO sprightly and airy ms to
"on OBSERVE the chlrpy title conferred on
- WI, mere is also in the employ of the
SSLta a a accommodating foreigner
mo had he not come to America wears
~ would probably ere this have been i'm
esseH INTO the Bulgarian service. He is
ESsCilpeu as valuable member of the spir-
Saiilst household, according to Mrs. Gal
~ ,lGr account, since he is able in a single
I'm elnllg 70 roam through the realms of
H. ana bring. any number of desired
gI9'n Hluo the clalrVoyant's chamber In
GaS operation he loses his own identity, but
wi. oQuces spooi after spook, it is alleged.
h ,,n aiFelouS fidelity to the makeup of
we shadowy originals.
nnai 9e'tlce Always begins with singing and
goaic' ana the lights are turned SO low that
S. % Atting in the horseshoe which is
b,rIeeu Ill the room cannot even see the
ea ','5 Oh thOSe sitting beside them which are
so,s lhelrs The Instrumental and vocal
P J.se ehectually browns the noise made by
r @~uie and the diSfranchised Bulgarian in
t np" ila through the aperture. After get
Lira ".Io une room they are concealed be-
go No. Ihe black drapery. Even il they
nor I, Al front or It, however, they would
oy'.' W visible, as they wear black dominoes
gg,,. luelr ghostly robes, and their somlre
eT~,,5 Quiz not be seen against the back
tba,' ' ,. ~ PACK drapely. Even II noticed
drrs.,., olld only look Ike shadows of the
foor" moving noiseeSsly through the
live So hder this protecting screen the
Tho, P,onA advance unseen to the cabinet.
. he aiillolSly got up spirits come forth at
cent |'nhs Of the medium. Phosphores-
Don l,at'.l Us used 10 illuminate the exhibit
nf,,,'N ana al times the faces of those
B.ri,'l hnhdowy visitors. one rrise rs for
Urt IL, W.T. lhe male imparsonntor 10 come
hDeb 'I' cabinet concealed entirely by her
pn,.n,' @'inino. The color prevents th0e
b.. IVin seeing him Or lior IN the dark
b. nf, ,,'upleily the mask h dropped when
mlt, .'nl~l spirit IN near the SPECTATORS.
llra (. l'ph ,Linm forth. The danppear.
te p,s'i pinplifhed ~ slddenly by lifting
ls4.I ~ yam, there being stfing con.